Eric Whitacre's Virtual Youth Choir - What If
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ส.ค. 2014
- Eric Whitacre's Virtual Youth Choir in association with UNICEF and the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Visit virtualyouthchoir.com to use the taggable video to find individual singers' videos.
2,292 singers aged 18 and under from 80 countries across the globe joined together to sing What If, from the musical Paradise Lost.
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One night I suddenly remembered being in an online choir, so I tried to see if it was on TH-cam, and here it is! I was only 7, I remember my mom having me memorize the lyrics to this song, and one day, though I was in a rush for my dance class, my mom filmed my video, right in front of a door with good lighting. Some time later, I got to see the video, and was amazed that I was singing with so many other kids around the world, just with a video
I remember almost graduating high school and hearing about the virtual youth choir. I JUMPED on the opportunity and submitted it as soon as the submissions opened. Absolutely love that I'm in there somewhere! I've met Eric on a couple of occasions and absolutely an amazing talented and humble man. Still my absolute favorite composer to this day. I look forward to your next projects Eric!
okay i already thought the concept of strangers coming together and making something beautiful was amazing...but when you add CHILDREN to that concept...game over. PERFECTION
Lady Squier i agree
Seriously
The reason that this song is simplistic and short is because it is made for youth, not adults. When it comes to composing a song for a choir and demanding such a broad amount of people, you will need it to be simplified without many intricacies. This was written considering children vocalists, as well as teenage vocalists, but you can't expect an elementary student to sing a high school level piece. Putting such a work together like this is hard enough, but what makes it harder is putting together the amount of voices that contributed. This is by far outstanding and very well put together.
I can remeber when i was ten years old and my Mom told me to Join this project, i doesn't wanted this at all, but now i'm Happy i done it and will Always remeber this Moment 😊
These children brought happiness through their beautiful voices. The children’s choir was full of power, encouraged people have hope with life. With the song,I could see the sun shining in the blue sky .
Bright, cheerful, happy, energetic, innocent... this is how children are supposed to be and sound like :) Bravo Eric!
Chills
It's amazing how technology can unite People all over the World and to be able to say 'Thank you for your brightest smile in Lux Aurumque, Melody' )))
Can't stop watching this. I love that I got to be a part of this.
Joy, incarnate. I hope he will be around for a long time to come. I wish this piece had gone one for much much longer!
Guess I will listen to it again, and again. I agree it could have been longer, BUT, part of the beauty of this is it comes off all too short and makes you wonder, What If....
This an is pure genius.
Please listen and enjoy the end result of all their hard work.
thrilling. The beauty is not just the music, but the unifying purpose of the exercise. The world needs this so badly.
I cry every single time I hear this... Beautiful and inspiring. Children and music go hand in hand.
what iffff ...your voice... sailed free, rejoice!
were you in it or do you just like the song?
Lesley Anguiano I just like the song... I was in VC4 tho!
Thank you to each and every one of these singers for bringing their voice & energy to this project.
Another masterpiece from Eric Whitacre's!!!
Gosh I remember submitting my video for this when I was 15. I was so excited and listening back on this when I'm an adult and seeing my face and actually hearing my voice is amazing. Thank you Eric for this awesome opportunity
One of the best songs I've ever herd
I am actually in this video, I had a bit of a technical screw up and it looks like I am just mouthing the words which I'm not (those of you on the Eric Whitacre website probably saw that). I do hope to get to do this again. :)
I like your song so much
You're music is beyond the moon
I have no words...
The most simple of all his videos but it's the most beautiful
This is so beautiful that I cry every time ... Thank you so much ... !
*****
Aww how moving my friend ... !
Liza
Amazing....just beautiful!!!
this was a really fun song to record. Hope I get the chance to do it again. :)
I got goosebump listening to this piece. Love it!
I am in this video. It was so fun to record and join together with a bunch of strangers to make this
Got to sing this song in his Honor choir in 06-07 before opera electronica. It was and still is beautiful.
Omg this is what inspired me and a friend at my high school to crate a glee club!!! So beautiful!!!❤️❤️❤️
This song possessed me! I listen to a few days without a break. Literally - without a break! I'm crazy - that's for sure!
Thank's for that Eric! :D
The Good Crazy!
Yeah LOL
Amazing!!!! My choir teacher showed us one of your first videos and I fell in love with them. Thank you!
One of my favorites ever..SO MUCH JOY..very convincing evidence of WHO we ALL REALLY..ARE made of..J-O-Y, Freedom, Harmony, Laughter..L-O-V-E !! What IF!?
Beautiful. I wonder if it possible to not keep time with this! Pure genius. It would be great to dance to. Wish it was longer.
I can't help it I cry every single time I listen to this. I don't think anything has ever moved me like this before...
same here
im in this one and it was so cool to see how it all turned out!!!!!!!!!!! :) thanks Eric!!!!!!!!!!
L♥ve it - Children our own unique wonderful Planet Earth. ♪♫
What a amazing Sound Eric.THANK YOU ♥
This sounds like a n angel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE THIS.
***** Me too, man. Me too!
So beautiful... :')
joshscorcher wasn't expecting to see you here, josh.
Glad had joined this
Makes me cry.
My music teacher in high school had the entire choir do this. It was an amazing experience!! I still remember where I am in the video haha
Wow... I just found these, they're awesome!
Lovely, music.
I love this idea it's really truly is beautiful
Absolutely amazing! Made my spirit soar. WTG!
one word...Amazing
Whatever a virtual youth is, they certainly sing well together.
Mike Collins it's an opera with webcam, millions of different people, but the singers are kids.
Gee, thanks. I guess humor isn't really your thing!
(I spelled "humour" the American way, because with your sense of it, I'm guessing you must be one)
Mike Collins what do you man by humor? and I like humor and yes, I'm American.
OfficialIlluminatiGames "yes, I'm American". That's what I thought.
OK, I guess I'll have to explain it then. "Virtual youth choir" can be interpreted two ways - (1) a youth choir that is virtual (ie - not an actual group of people singing together), or (2) a choir of virtual youths.
Now do you get it? My comment was "Whatever a virtual youth is, they certainly sing well together."
It's a JOKE.
Sheesh!
Heart opening beyond belief!
Can't wait to get this song off iTunes :)
So
precious ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
Beautiful, Amazing!!!
Wonderful Production
These are so amazing.
I love this song
I am singing this in the Choir
To be honest this is kind of expected. One must compose a catchy yet simple piece for children and teenagers because if it's too complicated and the voice leading is too advanced, it could take forever for a child to get down the chords and harmonies as precise as a simplistic piece.
Well for children yes but many teenagers have the ability to sing more complex pieces, especially those who are in their school's choral program. Granted some teenagers can't. But I know plenty of very gifted singers who happen to be 17 or younger :)
Thank you for sharing all of your inspired & heartfelt work. I look forward to seeing future works from you Eric.
May you be well,
C
WOW!! REJOICE!!
LOVE IT!
Sounds great, THANKS
Just amazing!!!
This is amazing. Thank you.
You have to do a second one of these! I love it! :)
Amazing!!!!!!
I was in this!!!
You got this
LOVE IT!!!THANK YOU!
Beautiful!!!
すごい！
Ah, this is just gorgeous - huge congratulations to everyone concerned. Community remix to make some fabulous 8 minute trance versions?! :)
What if... bellissima
amazing
This is amazing
Hi there. I wrote a long & lovely post earlier but posted the wrong thing due to a glitch (new phone... clip board... copy &paste gone terribly terribly wrong... You know the drill).
Anywho...excellent thing you're doing here. I hope to continue seeing your absolutely amazing work for... Well forever. :)
Keep on shining. Thanks again.
C
This is beautiful!
I love d it a lot.
I was introduced to you through a sermon called "Agents of the Apocalypse" by David Jeremiah. It was during Video 3 as he was talking about the 144,000. I didn't know what to expect, but I saw your Virtual Choir 4 and was blown away. I was scared to even blink because I thought I was going to miss something! Your videos are awesome! I hope you keep them coming. I have subscribed to all of your channels. God bless you and have a wonderful day!
This is so cool!!!
I love it!!!
Do you think it is possible to cut the video image in half and stack one on top of the other so that we can see all this beautiful faces more clearly?? =)
no, the video is rendered to a certain resolution, so cutting it up would not create video boxes with more pixels, it would just create either a low resolution result or a blurred video
Absolut JOY!
It's Awesome :)
This is cool.
Que maravilloso quisiera formar parte del coro virtual pero el problema es que no hablo ingles ojala en los siguientes proyectos del Maestro Whitacre tenga posibilidad...Saludos desde Paraguay
I’m somewhere in there!
Nice! ;)
oh my gad I'm in dis
Is there a way I can join this choir? I have been listening to the music and I REALLY want to join. I've never really had any singing lessons, but I can sing and I love doing it.
hi I cant see the choir very well! the song is very good though I cant see the credits good either
oh and it should of said where the kids are from too!
I wish this had less dubstep behind it
I'm trying so hard not to dance in the middle of class lol
I'm curious to know what the original production resolution on this video was... 8K wide?
***** I meant pixels, not physical projection length.
Don't stop believing
If you have 2000 voices to play with, you DON'T NEED A SYNTHESIZER...
You say that as if anyone thought the purpose of a synthesizer is to replace voices, or as if voices are somehow more important. Neither does the others job and neither is incompatible with the other. Stop being a stuck up purist. Obviously you don't have to like it because it has synths in it, and I don't expect you to. Obviously people don't write music with the intent of everyone liking it. What if it had been given an orchestral arrangement with the same music? A synthesizer is just an instrument. A voice is an instrument. Drums, strings, brass, woodwinds are all instruments. They all are used for musical expression, and each has a place and a purpose. They can be combined in an infinite number of ways to compliment each other. That's what music is. Did the synthesizer somehow take away from the voices? They're still heard and still beautiful. You can not like it and still not object to its use. There's a major difference between "I don't like the synthesizer" and "you don't need the synthesizer." The only reason for your objection to it that I can come up with is that you're being pretentious. And nobody likes a pretentious person.
@@StatikDynamikDubstep I never even noticed the synthesizer! All I heard were the lovely voices of these young people.
The second boy to sing though.........
What are these numbers at the right of the singers names?
Our ages
was no where near as good as watching it live in the stadium but still wonderful
Go to 0:33 to see me!
you have 2-year-olds??
their was a 0 year old😂
NO way. o_o
ha
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